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often completely covering them to a height of twenty to thirty feet. 

 The El Valle district proved rich in species, and here were obtained a 

 number of unrecorded forms, as well as the two undescribed species. 



La Vega is a good-sized town, about seventy-five miles from Sanchez, 

 and is the inland terminal of a railway from the latter town. It is 

 built in the midst of the splendid Vega Real (Royal Valley), an immense 

 inland plain, surrounded by pine-covered mountains and with numer- 

 ous wooded ravines and river beds. Several rare species were taken 

 here, while in the pine forests of the mountains such species as the 

 trogan and white-winged dove were found. Miranda is a small village 

 nearly forty miles inland from La Vega, and situated in the heart of the 

 wild and unsettled mountains of the island. The birds were very 

 scarce in this locality, but several species not observed elsewhere 

 were obtained here. 



The climate of San Domingo is healthy and the usual tropical 

 fevers and malaria are almost unknown. Typhoid fever, however, 

 is at times prevalent in the interior. Although the annual rainfall is 

 great on many portions of the island, especially at Sanchez and 

 Samana, yet it was no greater than in the majority of the Antilles, and 

 during the months of February, March, and April the island suffered 

 from a prolonged drought. The temperature is variable, ranging 

 from 85° during the day to 48° at night. This extreme variation at 

 sea level is due largely to the easterly and northerly winds which pre- 

 vail during the night, while during the daytime they blow mainly 

 from the west and south. In this connection the following table may 

 be of interest: 



San Lorenzo, December 29 to January 13: 



Average temperature— Day (9 A.M.), 84°; night, 60°. 



Average number of rainy days, L 



Average of barometric readings, 30.10; 30.25. 



El Valle, January 13 to January 19: 



Average temperature— Day (9 A.M.), S2°; night, 53°. 



Average of rainy days, ^. 



Average of barometric readings, 30.15; 30.25. 



Sanchez, January 20 to Januarv 28: 



Average of temperature— Day (9 A.M.), 83°; night , r _59°. 



Average of rainy days, ^. 



Average barometric readings, 30.20; 30.25. 



Sanchez, February 26 to March 11 : 



Average temperature — Day (9 A.M.), 85°; night, 55°. 



Average of rainy days, %. 



Average of barometric readings, 30.20; 30.25. 



